How to be a blog slacker

-- Spend long hours on your laptop, while completely ignoring the orange Blogger: Dashboard icon on your task-bar.
-- Go days, maybe even weeks without reading any updates on the blogs you follow. And then when you finally sign into Dashboard, get overwhelmed and don't read any of them. AT ALL.
-- Come home after a long day and go straight to bed.
-- Pick a good book over your laptop.
-- Never take your camera anywhere you go.
-- Use any free time you have to do laundry and/or dishes, fiddle with facebook (aka read about how much people hate all the new updates. WE GET IT! NO ONE LIKES THEM! MOVE ON ALREADY!), or to pet the cat.
-- Devote every ounce of creative juice in your brain to planning or choreographing for dance. That way, you'll have nothing fun/exciting/remotely entertaining/inspirational left to share.

I'd say that I've completely mastered this list. For the past week (at least) I've been the best blog slacker I know. Actually, probably the only blog slacker I know. Besides boyfriend, of course. Wait that dude has a blog?! Yeah, I know.. 

Maybe I'll be able to reel myself back into the "normal" routine of blogging someday peeps. Some. Day.

I.O.U.

About a weeks worth of blogging

1 (about to be 2) Weekly Gratitude Post

Photos of the new place

Lots of updates Re: teaching, kitty, boyfriend, work, dance, moving, 

friends, plans, home decorating, shopping and all that jazz!

Since we don't have internet at our new place I have been experiencing blog withdrawals and haven't posted since, um, I forget - but it's been a while. Like seriously?! Who doesn't have internet and cable?! I have no idea when we're going to have internet freedom and the luxury of watching TV but I'm certain that I'll be glued to my cute pink laptop for days straight just trying to catch up. Maybe even weeks.  
Sorry I mean you're welcome boyfriend!

So for now, I will store all my witty, funny, somewhat inspirational post ideas deep inside my brain. Oh dear God please let my brain be big and strong enough. And then BOOM! (bet you didn't see that one coming!) your Dashboard's will explode with my million and one catch-up posts! 

(Now might be a good time to unsubscribe.. NO WAIT! please don't leave me..)

I bet you're wondering how I made this post happen...
shhh it's a secret!

Weekly Gratitude

 Weekly Gratitude participant! At the end of the week (for me, Saturdays), talk about the things that you are grateful for. Join us here!


*snow days (two this week)

*cozy socks that make boots feel all squishy

*boyfriend's oh.so.cute. surprises

*blogger's new fonts (however, I am soooo not grateful for blogger messing up my header.. which required me to spend lots of time out smarting whatever new format they decided to start using)
*I shouldn't complain in a Weekly Gratitude post - therefore I am honestly grateful that I have a blog with followers. So thank you = ]

*finding new music/sharing some of my current favorites - (see playlist)
 *sex & the city reruns that suck me in for  h o u r s!

*friends & our game nights




What are you grateful for? Happy Saturday friends =]

a big [blog] hug

Thank you Thank you Thank you

To followers, both new and old [but loved dearly, of course] for sharing your love recently. I was beginning to doubt my blogs' attention-getting ability, so I want you to know that your comments mean this blog still exists. 

~ To show my appreciation to those newbies ~

Sounds of Laughter Shades of Life [nicolejeanette]
The Swede Records [jennymay]
The Invocation of My Muse [kiersten]
ailinh & aaron [ailinh]

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Please visit them and share the love.

Give your new followers a [blog] hug by sharing their pages in a post like this. 

Keep those blogs alive!

Happy snow day ; ) 

[keepcalmposters..]

Fresh & New

Since it's 2011, I figured it would be appropriate/acceptable to change my blog up a bit. Sometimes I think I could spend all day designing the layout of my blog. It's so insanely addicting.

I'm in the process of scrounging for time to work on my handmade business. Some new items will be debuted on my website and ebay store soon - so stay tuned. [Possible sneak peak here first]..

I hope everyone is having a lovely start to the year. My only wish is that there would be some more of that fluffy white stuff falling from the sky. I don't like going out in it, unless I'm dressed in about 20 layers and have boots on.. [you should see me walk through the mud and dirty snow in my "nice" shoes].. the poor things.

They say there might be some this weekend - so look out New England.

 

snow - weheartit

happy hump day bloggers : )

a day of happy

That was yesterday. Boyfriend and I celebrated 3 years and 3 months together. That's thirty nine months in case you were curious. When we mentioned it to anyone yesterday, we described it as our 3.3 year anniversary. Thought that was kinda cute. Another thing that I unknowingly celebrated was my 111 post. Although it isn't a significant typical celebration in the blog world, I think all of you might be willing to make an exception. please? If you're laughing at my crazy logic for celebrating my 111 blog post, think about how cool you thought it was when people, or even you, got married on dates like 07/07/07. I've made my point.

 HAPPY 111 POST LITTLE BLOG OF MINE : )

Teal & pink cupcake lives here!

Instead of celebrating with cupcakes, last night I made cherry cobbler. Recipe that Alivia shared with Dana and I. Didn't come out as good as I played it up to be. It was almost too gooey, and the filling spilled over the pan, making a mess of the oven, and creating a smog of smoke in the kitchen. Opps. I was so disappointed. [I should've made cupcakes]

 

I worked on my blog forever last night. Mid conversation with Dana, I let out a successful "Yesssssss" as I clicked the view blog link and saw my lovely page all perfect and aligned. He looked at me and said "What? Did you're blog do what you want?" I don't know how, or why, but once I get going, there's no stopping me. There's always one more thing I want to change or add, and once I finally come to an agreement with myself to stop for the night, another idea pops into my head, and for fear of it running away, I quickly scribble and navigate all over blogger. It's bad. But I accept it. And so does my wonderful, sweet boyfriend... I think.

My favorite thing today -   <3

What's your favorite thing today?

I'm such a slacker..

Uhhhh I wish I had more time to blog.

Blahhh... I've been super busy and haven't been all that interested in spending time on the computer. Which I suppose is both good and bad. On the good side, I've been doing lots of other things like spending time with my family and hanging in the nice warm weather. On the bad side, I feel like I'm forgetting/missing out/losing track of everything that I used to check several times a day on the internet before.
I hope that I become better at this when I'm in New York. I definitely need to keep track of all the exciting things that will happen to Alivia and I for the next two months..

Please check in for updates - until then.. sorry if my lack of posts have let you down : (
If they have.. I hope this picture makes up for it.

My great niece Jaelyn : )